Comparison essay
Comparison Essay Budge Wilson’s “The Metaphor” and Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” are very similar. Both short stories show how young teenage girls sometimes do not get along with their mothers. They also show how people try to commit suicide when they are emotionally hurt. One last thing they have in common is that they show how most teenage girls overreact in certain situations.
“The Metaphor” is about a teenage girl named charlotte. Charlotte is in a more advanced English class. She loves writing and reading just as much as her teacher Ms.Hancock. Ms.Hancock is a bubbly and energetic teacher that has a very unique teaching style. Further into the year she ends up teaching Charlotte and her classmates about poetry, but Charlotte falls in love with metaphors and becomes very good at writing them. When Charlotte starts out in high school, she tries her best to fit in but it all goes down hill when Ms.Hancock shows up to teach her English class.
“An Ounce of Cure” is also about a teenage girl. This girl ends up becoming infatuated with a boy named Martin Collingwood. After he breaks her heart for another girl, she decides that she wants to kill herself, but she ends up not doing it. While babysitting she ends up getting drunk and calling her friend Joyce for help before passing out. Joyce shows up with Kay Stringer in tow. Kay ends up being a person who loves crisis. Joyce, Kay, and a couple of boys clean her and her mess up. When she was wearing only a slip, the Berrymans walked in early and caught them. Both authors successfully depict how young teenage girls sometimes do not get along with their mothers. Budge Wilson’s “the Metaphor” expresses this theme better. In “The Metaphor”, Charlotte writes a metaphor explaining that her mother is a cold hearted perfectionist: “My mother is a flawless modern building created of glass and the smoothest of pale concrete. Inside are business office furnished with beige carpets and gleaming chromium. In
“The Metaphor” is about a teenage girl named charlotte. Charlotte is in a more advanced English class. She loves writing and reading just as much as her teacher Ms.Hancock. Ms.Hancock is a bubbly and energetic teacher that has a very unique teaching style. Further into the year she ends up teaching Charlotte and her classmates about poetry, but Charlotte falls in love with metaphors and becomes very good at writing them. When Charlotte starts out in high school, she tries her best to fit in but it all goes down hill when Ms.Hancock shows up to teach her English class.
“An Ounce of Cure” is also about a teenage girl. This girl ends up becoming infatuated with a boy named Martin Collingwood. After he breaks her heart for another girl, she decides that she wants to kill herself, but she ends up not doing it. While babysitting she ends up getting drunk and calling her friend Joyce for help before passing out. Joyce shows up with Kay Stringer in tow. Kay ends up being a person who loves crisis. Joyce, Kay, and a couple of boys clean her and her mess up. When she was wearing only a slip, the Berrymans walked in early and caught them. Both authors successfully depict how young teenage girls sometimes do not get along with their mothers. Budge Wilson’s “the Metaphor” expresses this theme better. In “The Metaphor”, Charlotte writes a metaphor explaining that her mother is a cold hearted perfectionist: “My mother is a flawless modern building created of glass and the smoothest of pale concrete. Inside are business office furnished with beige carpets and gleaming chromium. In